From Mary Treat 20 December 1871
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Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.
Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.
| Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8113 |
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- … letter to Oliver of 27 [September 1860] , CD had noted that in Drosera longifolia , the incurvation was ‘always terminal’ (that is, beginning from the apex of the leaf). In Insectivorous plants , p. 278, CD cited Treat’s observations on D. longifolia from her paper, ‘Observations on the sundew’ ( Treat 1873b ); CD referred to the species by its modern name, D. anglica . Asa Gray’ …
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